Tim Watkins Trophy 2013

The long distance, mass start, Tim Watkins Trophy returns on Sunday 3rd March on the newly extended Hutton Roof map. More details via the event web page accessible from the link at the top of the home page, or see the event flyer. Entries are open now on Fabian4.

Club Handicap photos and RouteGadget

Thanks to Brian Jackson and Sarah Roberts for some action photos around the start of the handicap, which have been added to the Gallery. RouteGadget for the event is now ready to receive your routes.

Club social and prize giving

Thanks to Martyn Roome for his photos of the prize giving at Abbeystead today. Pictured above is Quentin Harding celebrating receiving the Overall Men's Trophy. More in the Gallery.

Club Handicap

Wellington Wood did not disappoint and Julian's course setting was testing to the right degree. All competitors had the same last few controls but started at various points around the 30-control course. Handicapping proved accurate with the bulk of the runners finishing within a few minutes of each other. The clear winner however was Finlay Johnson, who received his trophy at the social and prize giving  in Abbeystead Village Hall, along with all the club trophy winners. Results for the event are on-line here. Please note that the mass start time has been corrected so that everyone's total time is about 5 minutes shorter than in the provisional results. The order is of course the same.
Trophy winners:

Annual Club Handicap and prize giving, Saturday 12th January

The annual club handicap competition will this year return to the delightful Wellington Wood, near Dolphinholme (GR 514 547). Registration from 12.00 with a mass start at 12.45 pm. Afterwards, the presentation of club awards and prizes at Abbeystead Village Hall (GR 562 543), with the usual Jacobs Join, raffle and quiz. No charge - just come along for the run and the fun.

North West Fixtures

The latest North West fixture list in PDF format is available to download via the link on the left of the home page. Click on the picture as shown above.

New Year Cracker RouteGadget

RouteGadget is now ready to receive your routes for the event on New Year's Day at Lancaster University.

New Year Cracker!

We hope you all enjoyed today’s New Year Cracker, with over 100 entries and quite a few more people than that it was probably the largest ever. Our thanks go to Dick and Jane Collins for planning such good courses and making life very easy for us as organisers. Also to Chris Roberts and Quentin Harding for help on the day.

A couple of changes to the declared results (rushed a bit because you and we were were getting colder by the minute!) are that James McCann won the M14 category and prize – we will get the prize to him (the originally declared person actually did the Beginners course) and that Alastair Thornton won the M18 prize – I think he will already have eaten his prize by now! Full results here.

The next time you run at the University it may well be the JK Sprints – better commit all those routes to memory! Martyn and Sue Roome